英语词汇学习题

Chapter 1

一、The term 'vocabulary' is used in different senses. Match the examples with the definition of vocabulary.

二、There is plenty of slang in the following dialogue. Read the dialogue and see if you identify and understand.

Person A: What's up man?

Person B: Not much dude.

A: How is it going?

B: I'm alright. I am good.

A: What's going on?

B: I am feeling down.

A: Why?

B: My girlfriend dumped me. She said that we don't mesh well together.

A: I am so sorry. I feel for you man.

B: It sucks. It's so horrible. I don't want to live without her.

A: There are plenty of other fish in the sea. You can't lose hope over a single chick.

B: I guess you got a point. It's tough though, and it's hard to move on.

A: You'll be good. No worries. Live life and have fun.

B: I can do that. Thank you so much for being there. You're the man.

A: I do what I can, lol.

三、Here are some of the slang expressions with their explanations

man: a term of familiar address to a man or a woman: Hey, man, take it easy.

dude: a man, a fellow

down: depressed

dump: to end one’s relationship with someone

mesh: to match, coordinate, or interlock

suck：to be disgustingly disagreeable or offensive

feel for: to feel sympathy for or compassion toward; empathize with: I know you're disappointed and upset, and I feel for you.

fish: person

chick: Often Offensive. a girl or young woman.

lol: laughing out loud

四、Which of the following words are content words and which are function words? Put them in the correct

五、Read the following excerpt from George W. Bush’s Farewell Address in 2009 and underline the functional words used in it.

Like all who have held this office before me, I have experienced setbacks. There are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed the conscience and done what I thought was right. You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions.

六、Guess whether the following statements are true or false.

1. Native words are words brought to Britain in the fifth century by the Germanic tribes: the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes.

2. Native words are known as Anglo-Saxon words.

3. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number.

4. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin form the mainstream of the basic word stock and stand at the core of the language.

5. What is true of the basic word stock is also true of native words.

6. The number of functional words is overgrowing.

7. Every morpheme has its variants.

七、

Denizens: pork port change cup

Aliens: Kowtow Kimono Intermezzo Ketchup Decor

Translation-loans: Masterpiece Black humour

Semantic-loans: Dream Fresh Pioneer Dumb

八、Explain the relationship between sound and meaning with examples.

九、Divide the following words into their constituent morphemes:

inaccessibility, unevenly, friendliness, overseas, minimalist, occurrences, assumption, retell, ex-wife, misleading, multimedia, automobile, microcomputer, vice-chairman, semiconductor, underdeveloped, telescope, maltreat, anti-government, forehead, illegal, disobey, unfair, prepaid, de-emphasis, readiness, discouraging, kind-hearted, undoubtedly, stockrooms, prepackaged

十、Judge how many morphemes the following words have:

unrespectable, recollection, irresponsibility, internationalists,impossibility, unpredictable

十一、Write the following words with hyphens between their morphemes.

quickly downstairs fourth poisonous weaken worldwide

internationally inject protrude

十二、Try to find out how many allomorphs does "–ed" has? Illustrate your answer with examples.

What would be considered as allomorphs of the morpheme ‘plural’ from the following set of English words?

data oxen c hildren deer films factories matches

十三、Analyze the words in terms of root and stem.

impracticableness unbelievably